Pen-holder



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PEN HOLDER.

No. 291.416. Patent ed Jan. 1, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT n. SPENCER, oE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

PEN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No."291,416, dated January 1, 1884. Application filed March 8, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT H. SPENcER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pen-Holders; andI do hereby declare that the same are fully described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

My invention is a new article of manufacturea paperpen-holder formed of concentric paper tubes.

The drawings represent in plan and in longitudinal and in transverse section the best form in which I have contemplated applying my invention, the two paper tubes at and b being arranged concentrically, the inner one somewhat thelongest and fitting loosely within the other, so as to leave a space between them, adapted in shape and size to receive the shank of the pen 0. Tubes of suitablethickness may be readily compressed between the thumb and finger to increase or diminish the curvature at the point of insertion of the pen, so as to conform inshape to the pen, whether large or small; The same holder will therefore accommodate the smallest and largest pens, and may have a small one at one end and a large one at the other. The pen, when inserted, holds the two tubes in proper relative position without any other fastening than the resultingfriction, the pen holding them firmly in contact on the side opposite to it, as shown on a larger scale in Fig. 3. The tubes may be readily cut to any desired length by a sharp knife or other cutting-instrument, and may be of the same or different lengths, oneorbot-h being of the full length of the holder. Where the inner tube protrudes, as in Figs. 1 and 2, it forms a shoulder which assists in entering the pen between the two. Such projection also enables one tube to slide upon the other, and

.thus aids in removing the pen in case it should stick to the tubes.

Tubes suitable for my purpose may be rapstrip of paper entering them lengthwise into a uniform and continuous tube having its walls made up of Successive convolutions of the pasted strip pressed together and solidified. Such tubes of convenient lengths are dried and subsequently reduced to proper length for pen-holders, and inserted one within the other. Suitable tubes may, however, be rolled up by hand, sidewise, with considerable rapidity. Any desired outward finish may be given, such as a thin coating of wood veneer.

The advantages of my paper pen-holder are its great oheapness and lightness, its ready conformity to any size of pen, the yielding character and comfortable feeling of the paper tube, and the entire avoidance of pen-paralysis, so often arising from contact of the fingers wit-h themetallic part of the ordinary pen-holder.

I am aware that single paper tubes have been used as handles for pencils and for various other purposes, and that tubes of rubber, felt, blotting-paper, &c., have been slipped upon the pen-supporting ends of wooden or metallic pen-holders. I make no claim to such single tubes or attachments; but

I claim as my invention 1. As a new article of manufacture, a penholder formed of two paper tubes, one within the other, the space between them being about the thickness of a pen.

2. The pen-holder described, formed of .two paper tubes of suitable size placed one within the other, the inner tube being slightly longer than the outer, as and for the purpose set forth. I

In testi mony whereof I hereto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. ALBERT H. SPENCER.

Witnesses:

E. A. PHELPS, O. G. KEYES. 

